DIAGNOSIS MURDER SERIES Latest book: THE LAST WORD Dr. Mark Sloan is the affable and avuncular Chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital...and a deductive genius who consults with the LAPD, whether they want him to or not, on their most perplexing homicide investigations. Based on the TV series starring Dick Van Dyke. MONK SERIES Upcoming book: MR. MONK GOES TO GERMANY Adrian Monk is a brilliant detective...with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although he's able to solve baffling murders for the San Francisco Police, his phobias and personality ticks leave him utterly incapable of handling even the simplest aspects of day-to-day life. Based on the TV series starring Tony Shalhoub. STANDALONES Latest book (anthology): HOLLYWOOD AND CRIME Dark-comic thrillers, genre-busting mysteries, and epic catastrophies. And that's just what Lee's love-life was like before he got married. Wait until you read his standalone novels... NON-FICTION Latest book: SUCCESSFUL TELEVISION WRITING Lee examines the entertainment industry from a number of perspectives -- from breaking in as a writer to exploring the thousands of unsold TV series pilots.